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FOX Closing 'The X-Files' This Sunday

Aired May 17, 2002 - 05:55   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Fans of "The X-Files" TV show know what I'm talking about. After nine seasons of aliens, government conspiracies and every kind of monster imaginable, FOX is closing "The X-Files" this Sunday with a top-secret series finale.

And as CNN's Susan Campos tells us, the truth is still out there somewhere.

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SUSAN CAMPOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): "The X-Files" was the show that proclaimed, "The truth is out there," way out there.

GILLIAN ANDERSON, ACTRESS: It came at a really timely moment when people were ready to open their minds to new things and take that leap with us.

CAMPOS: That leap of faith took viewers to a place where the government was keeping all sorts of secrets.

ERICHE GOODE, AUTHOR, "PARANORMAL BELIEFS": "The X-Files" specifically and explicitly articulated the view that it is the government which is hiding essential information from us. And that the plot, the conspiracy, hinges on the fact that the government has essential information; namely, the existence of aliens, that is being kept from the public.

CHRIS CARTER, CREATOR "THE X-FILES": There have been scientific studies about people's belief in the paranormal and in aliens. But I always saw it as an opportunity to explore that stuff as both believers and skeptics. Like Mulder, we want to believe. We want to believe there's something greater out there.

CAMPOS (on camera): There is something greater out there, at least in a warehouse here in Torrance, California. This is from season eight; a fetus from "The X-Files." An alien fetus, that is. And right here, a pig, and a pig can't be a normal pig on "The X- Files." And if your remember from season eight, Fox Mulder was strapped into this cryogenics contraption.

(voice-over): Viewers still have a two-hour finale to look forward to. But after nine years (UNINTELLIGIBLE) ran its course. Ratings are down and cast members wonder if the environment after 9/11 sealed its fate. ANDERSON: Speaking about paranoia and the government is not something that people want to hear. People want to hear about a government that they can trust.

CAMPOS: Speaking of trust, the final episode is like a government secret, but David Duchovny will be back.

DAVID DUCHOVNY, ACTOR: In some ways -- I psychically I didn't really leave. It was nice to be able to -- I'm just really happy that I was able to come back and finish it.

CAMPOS: The show may be over, but "The X-Files" will have an afterlife. There is already talk about another "X-Files" movie landing in theaters soon.

Susan Campos, CNN Entertainment News, Los Angeles.

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